According to online figures, the population of Yokohama is nearly 3.7 million people.

So why are the Yokohama B-Corsairs holding regular-season games in Hiratsuka, Odawara and Ebina, among other locales? Yokohama is its home.

The team has a golden opportunity to grow its fan base in a big, diverse, multicultural city, a city where all of its regular-season games should be held. But it needs to take advantage of the size of Yokohama to market itself -- and sell tickets.

The preseason is the time for barnstorming -- then and only then.

In a nutshell, the B-Corsairs approach to scheduling games is like the entire bj-league's. It's illogical. It is, in reality, one of the league's chief problems, maybe its biggest one.

Pro teams ought to have, well, home-court advantage.

Which means they ought to play their games at ONE facility the majority of the time. After all, this is pro sports not a traveling circus.

And by having games primarily at one facility, fans get in the habit of going there game after game, making that place a special part of their leisure time. It becomes a tradition to visit (fill in the blank). Just like New York Yankees fans showing up to Yankee Stadium generation after generation.

Looking back on his team's effort tonight against the Gunma Crane Thunders, Yokohama B-Corsairs coach Reggie Geary passed along this insight via email that somehow got lost in cyberspace until after deadline. "We felt good today to have a positive result after a lackluster performance the night before," Geary said after Yokohama's 79-61 win on Sunday.

"We had one of our best stat sheets of the season with strong contributions from a number of players: All-Star Draelon Burns had 22 points, 8 rebounds and 4 assists; Thomas Kennedy, 18 points and 6 rebounds; and (Masayuki) Kabaya, 11 points, 4 rebounds, 6 assists. Player of the game, Pape Faye Mour, had a solid all-around performance with 14 points and 13 rebounds.

"Defense as always was one of big keys to victories, but also our willingness to share the ball offensively led to a number of good looks.

"We will have to continue with this type of good quality play on both ends of the floor versus an always-competitive Akita team coming to town this Tuesday and Wednesday."

By the way, 20 of 21 bj-league teams are in action today (10 games), but none on playing on national TV; BJTV does not count -- no announcers, no professional broadcasting crew to entertain and educate the viewing public.

For each of the league's 21 teams, here's the rundown on their wins and losses (in that order) over their past 10 games, reporting the numbers from top to bottom in both conferences, and overall record in parentheses through Sunday.